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Eight Is Enough

I last wrote about Octopath Traveler in October, and I’m still playing it now when I have the chance. I don’t think I’ve played anything else in the meantime, except for the occasional Sims 4. I have finished with the third chapters … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Language, Magic, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged cyrus albright, final fantasy vi, octopath traveler, ophilia clement, primrose azelhart, soulstones, tressa colzione, weapons |

The Eightfold Path

I guess I should say something about Octopath Traveler, since I’ve been playing it recently. I know I’m late to the (eight-person) party on this one, but that’s often how I am. It’s an old-school sort of role-playing game in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Video Games | Tagged alfyn greengrass, atlasdam, cyrus albright, direwolves, fenrir, h'aanit, hrodvitnir, linde, merchants, octopath traveler, olberic eisenberg, ophilia clement, primrose azelhart, s'warkii, sexual harassment, snow leopards, swords, therion, tressa colzione, weapons, wolves |

Dorothy the Dictator

Operation Luna, by Poul Anderson – The follow-up to Operation Chaos follows up on Steve and Virginia Matuchek about twelve years after the end of the first book. They now have three children, and are working on a project to launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, jules verne, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Places, Poul Anderson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Vietnamese | Tagged amtor, cayke the cookie cook, charloz, cowardly lion, coyote, danielle paige, demons, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, dwarves, eugenics, fairies, four immortals, frogman, from the earth to the moon, fu manchu, girl giant and the jade war, glinda, guns, hecate, hecuba of troy, hellhounds, jellia jamb, journey to the west, lost on venus, mombi, moon, naiads, nome king, nymphs, operation chaos, operation luna, ozma, peter stuyvesant, polychrome, pumperdink, scarecrow, sun wukong, swords, the chalice of the gods, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, van hoang, venus, weapons, witches, wizard of oz, wrath of the triple goddess |

Winning the Battle, Losing the Warlock

I’ve finished a few fairly short books within the last week or so, and here are some reviews. The Sword of Rhiannon, by Leigh Brackett – This is a pretty quick read that kind of mixes genres, although I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Celtic, Christianity, edgar rice burroughs, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, incryptid, Magic, Mythology, Names, Norse, Plays, Religion, seanan mcguire, Star Wars, Technology, William Shakespeare | Tagged afterlife, banshees, bluebeard, dogs, gardner fox, ghost roads, ghosts, hedgehogs, john bellairs, kyrik warlock warrior, leigh brackett, lust-stone, mars, mary dunlavy, michael scot, moddey dhoo, prospero, rhiannon, roger bacon, sparrow hill road, swords, t. kingfisher, the empire strikes back, the face in the frost, the seventh bride, the sword of rhiannon, the tempest, time travel, ursula vernon, valkyries, weapons, wizards |

The Cauldron of Story

There’s sort of a recurring theme to a few of the books I’ve read recently, so I’ll expound on that in these three reviews. Tales from the Perilous Realm, by J.R.R. Tolkien – This volume collects some of Tolkien’s short … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged alan lee, bilbo baggins, blunderbuss, bombadil goes boating, chrysophylax dives, dogs, dragonrouge, dragons, elric of melnibone, epic pooh, farmer giles of ham, fastitocalon, giants, hey diddle diddle, his dark materials, hobbits, lady of abundance, leaf by niggle, lin carter, lord of the rings, man in the moon, melnibone, middle-earth, moon, multiverse, on fairy-stories, philip pullman, roverandum, sexual harassment, smith of wootton major, spiders, tales from the perilous realm, terra magica, the adventures of tom bombadil, the fortress of the pearl, the hobbit, the last battle, the man in the moon, the man in the moon stayed up too late, the marvelous land of oz, the sailor on the seas of fate, the weird of the white wolf, the well at the world's end, tom bombadil, tom shippey, voluspa, weapons, william morris, wizards, wood between the worlds |

Yarthly Matters

The First Kothar the Barbarian Megapack, by Gardner F. Fox – This collects three different volumes, Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman (itself originally published as three short stories), Kothar of the Magic Sword, and Kothar and the Demon Queen. The author is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Etymology, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged a voyage to the moon, antillia, arimaspoi, atlantis, birds, carta marina, comical history of the states and empires of the moon, cumberia, cynocephali, cyrano de bergerac, demons, edward brooke-hitching, el dorado, elijah, frostfire, garden of eden, gardner fox, hy brasil, justice league of america, kothar and the demon queen, kothar barbarian swordsman, kothar of the magic sword, kothar the barbarian, lemuria, lich, michael wolgemut, moon, nuremberg chronicle, olaus magnus, prester john, satire, st. brendan the navigator, sun, swords, tammaso campanella, the city of the sun, the first kothar the barbarian megapack, the phantom atlas, the states and empires of the sun, ultima thule, voyages to the moon and the sun, waq-waq tree, weapons, wilhelm pleydenwurff, wizards, yarth |

Let Me Kluya In

I’ve reached Zeromus, the final boss in Final Fantasy IV (the Game Boy Advance version), but haven’t been able to beat him. I can’t really think of anything to do other than just leveling up some more, but I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged a.e. van vogt, airships, black destroyer, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cid pollendina, coeurl, damcyan, displacer beasts, dragoons, dungeons and dragons, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, fusoya, game boy advance, gil, golbez, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunar whale, lunarians, minwu, moon, mysidia, palamecian empire, pigs, ricard highwind, robots, toads, tower of zot, transformation, weapons, zemus, zeromus |

It’s Craning Men

When Sorrows Come, by Seanan McGuire – After a lot of build-up throughout the last few books, we finally get to see Toby and Tybalt’s wedding, at the court of the High King of the Divided Courts in Toronto. Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chris Dulabone, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged abuse, and with reveling, arabian nights, clark ashton smith, cranes, decemberists, doppelgangers, fairies, hippogriffs, jinn, kelly barnhill, kesrick, lin carter, marriage, mombi, ozma, robert e. howard, swords, terra magica, the crane husband, the crane wife, the marvelous land of oz, the merry mountaineer of oz, the tired tailor of oz, weapons, when sorrows come, wizards |

New York Abstains

SPOILER WARNING for everything contained herein. Thor: Love and Thunder – I was looking forward to seeing this one, and while it was enjoyable enough, I felt like there just wasn’t that much there. It combines two stories, that of … Continue reading →

Posted in american revolution, Animals, Arabian, Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Mythology, Norse, Politics, Prejudice, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged 1776, afterlife, asgard, baldur, captain marvel, carol danvers, clandestines, death, declaration of independence, eternals, goats, gorr the god butcher, guardians of the galaxy, indepdence day, indigarrians, inhumans, jane foster, jinn, kamala khan, korg, kronans, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, ms. marvel, necrosword, odin, omnipotence, omnipotence city, president john adams, president thomas jefferson, ragnarok, richard henry lee, russell crowe, second continental congress, sherman edwards, slavery, the god butcher, thor, thor love and thunder, valhalla, valkyrie, weapons, william daniels, x-men, zeus |

It’s Off Like Karnov

I tend to enjoy learning about video games with weird backstories and connections, even when I haven’t played the games in question, as with Bomberman and Lode Runner having the same hero, Wonder Boy and Adventure Island being basically the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Greek Mythology, Language, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged alakatay, aliens, atomic runner, atomic runner chelnov, bad dudes, bad dudes vs. dragon ninja, chelnov, chernobyl, creamina, data east, deathtarians, dinosaurs, dragons, fighter's history, gargoyles, jinborov karnovski, jinn, karnov, karnov's revenge, king ghidorah, lamia, president ronald reagan, shantae, shantae and the pirate's curse, statue of liberty, weapons, wizards, xenomorphs |